That's what I meant. From the "front" of the casino (table games
area) to the "back" of the casino (bus loading area), the machines
are on the left-hand wall of the high roller slot area. The area
that
I described is indeed between the poker room and the high roller
slot
area. Isn't it cool that we can "argue" about such a thing?
I'm sorry if I appeared to be arguing with you - I certainly didn't
mean to. I thought I was confirming that the machines had been moved
slightly (from the middle to the wall). When I looked back at my
post originally describing the machines I realize I didn't have to
bother, as I wasn't that specific as to their location.
The Triple Action machines are still quite popular. I STILL don't
know why, however. Some players seem to have abandoned the Triple
Action games in favour of the "great" Spin Poker and Super Times
Pay
games. This may just be because the Triple Action games are "old"
and
the Spin and Super Times games are "new".
I guess people just haven't done the math on this game (or don't
care, or whatever).
Ironically, the $2 triple actions that were taken out were better
than all the rest of the ones in the place. You had to play only 5
per line, and a full house paid 9 instead of the 8 on all the other
ones. I never saw anyone playing the $2 triple actions.
I quote from Rama's most recent brocheure, which lists 25c, 50c,
$1,
$2, $5, $10, $20 and $100 slot machines.
According to the brocheure:
*$20 played on a $100 slot earns 5 points (!); this may be a
printing
error, however.
According to the brocheure:
*25c, 50c and $1 VP earns 1 point for every $15 wagered.
*$2 VP earns 1 point for every $20 wagered.
*$5 VP earns 1 point for every $30 wagered.
$10 and $20 VP earns 1 point for every $40 wagered.
The corresponding cashback percentages are 0.33%, 0.25%, 0.166%, and
0.125%.
I wonder if the people who run Rama realize that this approach makes
them relatively unique in casino management? Even the places with
terrible video poker usually offer slightly better paybacks at higher
denominations. At Rama, the higher the denomination - the lower the
overall return, assuming the same game and payscale.
I'm not sure exactly HOW they calculate "bounceback". I ASSUME that
200 points in a day are required, and then .5% of credit-in is
awarded. I'm sure that Rama's official explanation is
that "'bounceback' is at the discretion of management based on
rated
play" or some other PR spin.
I think .5% of coin-in is too high an estimate. Since about a year
ago, when they "adjusted" the bounceback levels, we have been pretty
consistant at 0.355%, rounded up to the nearest dollar. Any time
I've tried to find out their formula, I've gotten just the kind of
mumble-jumble you predict.
All that having been said, playing 9/6 JOB with a total theoretical
return of 100.22% at a casino slightly less than an hour's easy drive
bad.
I can guarantee you that if me, my wife, or some other close friends
of ours are there when you are, you will see people playing full coin
JOB on the multiline machines.
I will confess, however, to sometimes switching off to one of the
lesser games for a bit of variety (and, hopefully, a mini-jackpot).
Recently, after getting beat up severely at JOB for some time, I
switched to triple line deuces in the hope that I could at least luck
out and score a quick set of deuces. After a few minutes, the
machine that I had been silently cursing for some time dealt me all
four of them!
Neil
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--- In vpFREE_Canada@yahoogroups.com, "djmcosmo" <djmcosmo@...> wrote:
from my home, and which offers pretty good comps besides, is not that